• FISHES OF WEST COAST OF PERU. 135 



GoMoides peruanus Jordan and Evebmann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., 



vol. 3, 1898, p. 2264. 

 GoMoides peruanus Abbott, Marine Fishes of Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phlla., 1899, p. 361. 



One small specimen, field No. 09542, 8.5 cm. long, taken with a 

 boat beam-trawl, Bay of Paita, southwest of Caleta Golan, in 7 

 fathoms of water, soft mud bottom ; no other fishes taken here. 



Head 6.29 in total length; depth 10.6; eye very small, about 13.5 

 in head; snout 3.85; maxillary 2.25; interorbital 3.37; caudal 4.25 in 

 total length, confluent with dorsal and anal ; D. VII, 16 ; A. I, 15. 



Color in alcohol: Flesh colored, dusky points on back and sides 

 with indistinct traces of about 20 darker crossbars; fins blackish; 

 base of dorsal white. 



As this small indi^ddual presents some slight differences from the 

 current descriptions of the adult, we quote the description of this 

 species as given by Jordan and Evermann: 



"Head 5; depth 11; D. VII, 17; A. I, 16. Eye scarcely visible, 

 much smaller than in G. hroussonetii; scales very minute; snout 2.5 

 in postorbital part of head; interorbital 5 in head; lower jaw 

 slightly projecting; maxillary 2.6 in head; a series of large slender 

 teeth in each jaw, behind which, in each jaw, is a narrow band of 

 fine teeth ; caudal 4.33 in body, connected by membrane to dorsal and 

 anal; sides with regular cross series of pores. Body with narrow 

 angular crossbars; dorsal rays violet, the membrane yellowish. 

 Shores of Ecuador and Peru, ascending rivers." 



Family ECHENEIDIDAE. 



THE REMOBAS. 

 Genus ECHENEIS (Artedi) Linnaeus. 



161. ECHENEIS REMORA Linnaeus. 



Echeneis remora Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758. p. 260, in " Pelago 

 Indico." — Philippi. Peces Nuevos de Chile, Ann. Univ. Chile, vol. 

 93, 1896, p. 376. — Jordan and Evermann. Fishes Hawaiian Islands, 

 Bull. U. S. Fish Comm., vol. 23, pt. 1, 1903 (1905), p. 494. 



Remora remora Jordan and Ex'ermann, Fishes North and Mid. Amer., vol. 

 3, 1898, p. 2271. — Abbott, Marine Fishes Peru, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., 1899, p. 363. — Gilbert and Starks, Fishes Panama Bay, Mem. 

 California Acad. Sci., vol. 4, 1904, p. 180. — Snodgrass and Heller, 

 Shore Fishes Galapagos Islands, Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., 1905, 

 p. 421. 



